Dr. Lewis Oscar Croft

Dr. Lewis Oscar Croft © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Deceased Earliest Appearance: mid 1970s Base of Operations: Detroit Personal Data InfoDump First Mentioned: Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #2 Event Timeline Dr. Lewis Oscar Croft A scientist rumored to have tinkered with genetic mutation techniques. Employed by various mobsters to create super-powered enforcers. He was also alleged to assist in the creation of Black Velvet, "Energy" Brown and The Thumper. History Various backing mob bosses were rumored to have provided test subjects, he put them through various kinds of experimentation on their physical and metaphysical systems including the mysterious Kirlian system. After the Street Angel and Mister Badd busted up his lab and discovered Black Velvet, who confronted the two, Croft managed to escape though he was captured the next day, although he managed to destroy much of the records of his work. His body was found in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee in early 1977. And news reports stated that it was a contract killing by Black Velvet from either Oswald "Massacre" Morton of Detroit or The Deacon.